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Ayberk Bostan Sarioglan; Burcu Akbay – African Educational Research Journal, 2024
In recent years, environmental problems have been increasing rapidly around the world and affecting a wide range of environments. Many campaigns are carried out to raise awareness about environmental problems. This study aims to determine the ideas of students at different education levels about environmental problems and to compare these ideas…
Descriptors: Environment, Grade 4, Grade 7, Grade 11
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Koulougliotis, Dionysios; Antonoglou, Lemonia; Salta, Katerina – International Journal of Science Education, 2021
This study aims at investigating students' awareness of green chemistry principles (GCPs) which are infused in two context-based projects that are related to socio-scientific issues, namely climate change and materials' recycling. At first, content analysis of the projects' activities showed the infusion of four GCPs. Subsequently, the students'…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Chemistry, Science Instruction, Sustainability
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Chanapimuk, Kultida; Sawangmek, Sureeporn; Nangngam, Pranee – Journal of Science Learning, 2018
The environmental issues surrounding agrochemical products facing people today include serious health and ecological problems. Scientific literacy is necessary for students to understand scientific knowledge and get ready for the future world. Therefore, this action research aims to promote scientific literacy, in the area of plant growth by using…
Descriptors: Science Education, Technology Education, Science and Society, Environmental Education
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Quintero Corzo, Josefina; Lopera Lopera, Catherine Julieth – International Education Studies, 2016
This piece of work gives account of a classroom research project done in a rural state institution in Colombia whose main purpose was to contextualize the foreign languages teaching and learning in line with the current curriculum regulations stated by the National Ministry of Education. Content-based instruction inside a rural English classroom…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Rural Areas, Second Language Instruction, English (Second Language)
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VanDorn, Daniel; Ravalli, Matthew T.; Small, Mary Margaret; Hillery, Barbara; Andreescu, Silvana – Journal of Chemical Education, 2011
There has been much interest in magnetite (Fe[subscript 3]O[subscript 4]) due to its utility in adsorbing high concentrations of arsenic in contaminated water. The magnetic properties of the material allow for simple dispersion and removal from an aqueous system. An inquiry-based laboratory has been developed that illustrates these unique…
Descriptors: College Science, Scientific Concepts, Science Curriculum, Science Instruction
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Gecit, Yilmaz – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2010
The purpose of this study is to evaluate readability of 9th and 11th grade geography text-books currently used in schools. As known, one of the most fundamental features in a text-book is the readability of the text by students. In addition, it is also very important that the fluency and suitability of books match age level. In this study, the…
Descriptors: Cloze Procedure, Sentences, Readability, Textbooks